This author doesn't know much about the Bronze Age and is merely using a period of history as an ideological cudgel to indoctrinate young men.
It's fine to want people to be more alpha or conservative or whatever. Just be honest about it. Don't use the ancient near east bronze age as an aesthetic cover up for your ideology. This author knows next to nothing about the discovery of copper's melting point, the combination of copper and tin into the alloy bronze, the highly centralized and bureaucratic governments of dynastic Egypt, Mycenae, and Sumeria. They know nothing about cuneiforms development out of clay tokens or the hieroglyphic logography's evolution out of noble family seals. They know nothing about the gradual evolution of priestly logographic writing systems into alphabets, abjads, alphasyllabaries, etc. They know nothing about the bronze age collapse and its many potential causes. They know nothing about the military caste of wealthy charioteers who became outmoded due to the fact that their expensive training and equipment got BTFO by the newfound ability to raise large armies with cheaper weapons, and the introduction of wars of attrition. They know nothing about clay tablets and how expensive they were to produce, maintain, store, and transport. They know nothing about the introduction of lampblack ink formed with soot and gelatin. They know nothing about the trade routes and interdependencies of the bronze age.
They're just using the bronze age as a cudgel and the largely uneducated audience is eating it up because they have cultivated a certain aesthetic identity as consumers that relies on identifying with ancient western and near-east civilizations.
