I'm not used to other redditors having a fine eye for detail and actually reading my words rather than making assumptions on my meaning - you've avoided several opportunities to misunderstand me where most others would!

Perhaps I should rephrase. To restate it, I don't doubt that a low birth rate combined with longer life expectancy can cause problems, and that these problems are making themselves felt. The part that's a bullshit conspiracy theory is where that plugs into the manufactured culture concerns. The part where some academics know that their output will be misunderstood (yes yes, impossible to prove, so just an opinion). This is something I believe a lot of mainstream economists do - arguing in bad faith, knowing that to counter leftist ideas doesn't require a solid evidence base nor good logic, only to gain traction amongst the handmaidens of capitalism.

Jordan Peterson is a hack psychology professor in canada that has been at the forefront of the Trans Panic of the last \~10 years and thinks of himself as a cultural historian and philosopher, but is in fact peddling toxic masculinity.

Ben Shapiro is an alt-right media commentator who likes to present himself as very smart but is remarkably stupid. He is perhaps best known for admitting he never gets his wife's pussy wet, in response to a pop song with related lyrics, and for asking why people who live in houses at risk of coastal erosion don't just sell up and move.