I've had this thought watching this play out over the past few months. You have this deeply mystical, zen-like game of ancient China which represents the philosophy of the East and it's pitted against this pure capitalist, cold and calculating (literally) machine.

You can hold out for a few thousand years, but eventually the uncontrollable and amoral technological imperative will catch on and crush you.

It's kind of poetic and sad. It feels like technology will render everything un-sacred eventually.