The average person doesn't know anything about Buddhism; they can barely keep up with the silent demands of their own changing culture. I guess you could call them normies who barely get by in life after their youth begins to fade away or some tragedy befalls them in their youth. In Buddhism we call them puthujjana/pṛthagjana which means an ordinary worldly person or even a blockhead.
Over the years I have found it difficult to deal with these kind of people. Frankly, they suffer from a kind of false superiority that they can't let go of. When they ask a question about Buddhism I only see a state of confusion on their faces when my answer doesn't meet with their expectation.
Normies usually have a very closed mind. They like bumper sticker type answers. For example, Buddhism is about dealing with unhappiness (duhkha). This is far away from Buddhism’s core. Yet, surprisingly, Buddhism is very open; it’s not hiding anything even the language is straightforward.
A modern-day Buddha, speaking to normies, might put the problem and the solution this way. We are continually trapping our self in a real life simulation-game in which birth, death and rebirth are part of the game. The end that the modern person hopes for, that is, complete annihilation will never come either.
In this simulation, we take as our self the very avatar-simulation itself, not to mention, the external reality that it lives in. Our body and all that comes with it having passed through our mother’s birth canal is not who we really are. It is an avatar; a character in the game. In order to realize our true self, which is not the avatar who gets immersed and lost in the life simulation game, we have to transcend the avatar in the game.
This puts Buddhism in a much different light. It's not trying to help us rebuild our avatar or to bring a measure of peace and sanity to our avatar. Buddhism is about transcending both the avatar and the game itself.
Wisely, Buddhism tries to avoid arguments with the supporters of the Normie-world. People attached to their normie beliefs are very difficult to bring to true knowledge and are simply not worth Buddhism's time. All that Buddhism can say is here is the direction you must go, the rest is up to you.