As I read Bronze Age Mindset, I am going to write notes on each "Chapter", which I place in quotes, because each "Chapter" is anywhere from 5-30 sentences. Nevertheless, especially for my Internet-fried attention span, this is something of a blessing.
Earlier in the book (which I'll get back to in later notes series), BAP expounds on his non-materialist beliefs. He doesn't believe in God, but he does believe in gods. Here, BAP makes a claim that world events/outcomes should not be interpreted purely deterministically. He believes there are particular actors - let's call them Set X - who consciously crafting the current condition, that possibly much of history is falsified, and that these people are outwardly average/normal. The ostentatious, famous/fame-seeking rich are not in Set X, but serve purpose of those in X.
I'm not sure to what extent I agree with the most literal conspiratorial interpretation of this section, which is that particular people not visibly known to us are the ones "really in charge". I have no personal experience with which I can either corroborate or deny that. What's more plausible is that there's a set of people with some significant power who view the world amorally, but use the public's belief in morality to their detriment. I just lean more deterministically with regards to the role of any one given person than does BAP.
I don't see BAP discuss explicitly here, nor have I seen him elsewhere, discuss freedom in the sense sometimes discussed by analytic philosophers (e.g. determinism, libertarian free will, compatibilism, etc.).