The Conspirituality Report
JP Sears Monetizes His Baby Son
Conspirituality Puts Children in the Downline
JP Sears, dubbed “The Clown Prince of Wellness” for his COVID-minimizing New Age “satire”, has just become a father. Unsurprisingly, parenthood has already become a product in his lucrative wellness grift.
Yesterday Sears posted a lovely photo of himself with his baby son Wilder, posed as a mascot for his latest merchandising enterprise: conspiracy-branded t-shirts saying “I don’t trust fact-checkers”, and “Brave enough to get my worldview from myself.” The slogans refer to Sears’s conspiratorial contention that consensus news reporting on COVID is false and manipulative.
The commodification of children is nothing new in influencer culture. It’s particularly potent in the heteronormative wellness world, where children embody the supposed outcomes of organic living, and the union of divine masculine and feminine energies.
But there’s a clear hypocrisy in using children this way when the brand is selling moral and medical independence. For instance, free-birth advocate and COVID-denialist Yolande…
