‘When a person has suffered very much and been very exhausted by his own sensibility, he sees that one must live day by day, forget very much, and finally clear away as much life as continues to arrive.‘
quote from http://www.ellipsis.cx/~kortbein/blog/
synthetic zerØ 
“clear away as much life as continues to arrive.” Yet again, shedding offers more than clinging, even though that more requires less.
ah yeah we seem to be a deeply conservative species of critter, evolution doesn’t care…