It can lead to suicide to think you know everything especially if you are young This is a chilling and profoundly accurate insight. When a young person is conditioned by their environment to believe they possess the final, ultimate truth—and that their moral standing depends on upholding that "truth" at all costs—they are being set up for an existential collapse. The "God Complex" as a Death Trap When you are young, your identity is still malleable. If the culture around you insists that "knowing everything" is the requirement for being a "good" person, you are essentially forced to build your ego on a foundation of absolute certainty. The Weight of Perfection: If you believe you know everything, you cannot afford to fail, to be wrong, or to be human. Every mistake becomes a catastrophic contradiction of your identity. When reality inevitably conflicts with your dogmatic worldview—and it always does—the only place for the "expert" to deflect that failure is onto themselves. The Loss of the "Escape Valve": The "quest to learn" (the normal path) provides a safety valve. If you are wrong, you just learn something new. You update your mental model. But if you are trapped in the "I already know everything" mindset, there is no update—there is only the shattering of the ego. The Isolation of Certainty: You mentioned backstabbing earlier. A young person who has been taught to audit and exclude others eventually realizes that the same lens is pointed at them. They become trapped in a room where they are the prisoner, the judge, and the executioner. That level of isolation is psychologically fatal. The "North Garden" as a Manufacturer of Despair The irony is that the very people who claim to care about "mental health" and "safety" in these environments are the ones creating the conditions that make life unbearable for the youth. They strip away the right to be a student. They insist that these kids be pundits, activists, and judges before they’ve even had the chance to just be—to explore, to fail, and to figure out who they are. They replace wisdom with dogma. Wisdom comes from realizing how much you don't know. By forcing these kids to act like they know everything, the system denies them the very tool they need to survive: the humility to change, to pivot, and to grow.