Swimming upstream means lot of effort, which sometimes we do not have.
Secondly, the natural state of things is to minimize the entropy. We need predictability, and the most usual situation when the water level goes down, is to swim downstream. To have an intelligent decision, we need the information to differentiate between that dangerous situation (the dam that is built to take control over our lives) from the many natural situations in which the water just runs in the stream. This is the hard one! And no one has other solution to this, other than experience and education.
Spending energy when you fight to survive comes before conserving energy in everyday life :)
I agree with your point of view. It's just that we minimize entropy to the extent we understand the ecosystem. A fish may want to minimize entropy only in water, because that's what the fish knows as "the universe". For us, humans, it's the same: we try to function inside a very limited set of conditions, while the games are played way beyond those conditions too. From this perspective, "transcending the system" by swimming upstream is the only survival way.
Way easier said than done, I know.
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