Freedom for Sale begins by revisiting one of the most urgent frontiers of our age: the struggle to think freely. Journalist Mehrtash Olson joins Wade Fransson to examine how modern information systems—powerful, profitable, and often opaque—reshape not only public opinion but the inner landscape where conviction, conscience, and moral clarity are formed.Expanding on earlier conversations about skepticism and the sources that shape our worldview, this episode traces the mechanisms through which narratives are engineered, trust is eroded, and attention becomes a marketplace. Yet the conversation rises above critique. Through the lens of the Bahá’í teachings on truthfulness, justice, and the sanctity of thought, Mehrtash asks what it means to safeguard the integrity of our own perception when the world is designed to bend it.This episode marks the beginning of a new mini-series within Created in the Image of God—a journey into the forces that influence our choices, the freedoms we unknowingly surrender, and the spiritual discipline required to reclaim the authorship of our own minds.

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