How to Write a Paper That Passes Peer Review

In order to succeed at that game, I inevitably have to say something that I think isn't true or that I don't believe in. So I spent much of the past year writing long responses to reviewers and reading their long responses to me. But why can't you do that via the peer review process? Why not just submit papers that you think are true? And why is playing the journal game of violation of your philosophical values?