If you read Wei Wu Wei’s books, sooner or later you ask the question, which is stranger, his synthesis of the Buddhist view of reality, or how we fill reality defending the lie truth is false? It is no accident that we are firmly entrenched in our defense of what we insist reality is. Amnesia successfully shields us from the possibility that what we defend as “the truth” is false, and that what amnesia keeps out of mind, successfully, is the truth. What comes into focus is the growing awareness that the defense of what we refer to “the truth” is “The Main Event.” As long as your own amnesia works to obscure what the truth might be, you can’t see that you are part of a vast team devoted to proving truth is false, or doesn’t exist. This is what we do. Time is the venue for TAG, or “The Anti-truth Game.” As truth comes into focus, you identify that TAG is an index of the degree to which someone defends the lie truth is false, from some of the time, to all of the time. The more this becomes transparent, the faster you identify the connection between our ‘mental health’ and where we are with the truth.
If time is the venue for the game of TAG, or the sum and intensity of what we do to pretend we can prove truth is false, then it should follow that those whose presentation indicates they are in sync with truth should display what we refer to as “good mental health.” In fact, low TAG individuals, who don’t fill time ‘at war with truth,’ come across as objective (awake), rational, non delusional and appropriate. Conversely, the high TAG individuals display increasing ‘mental instability,’ the more they fill time defending the fiction it’s possible to prove truth is false.
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