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# "The restless adolescent returns to the herd, chastened by the discovery that freedom, in the end, is mostly parking lots."
- URL: https://www.projectevan.com/the-restless-adolescent-returns-to-the-herd-chastened-by-the-discovery-that-freedom-in-the-end-is-mostly-parking-lots/
- Published: 2026-05-31T18:09:50.000Z
- Updated: 2026-05-31T18:09:49.000Z
- Author: Evan Mercer
- Tags: mockumentary

![A lone metal shopping cart sits awkwardly outside a cart return corral in a mostly empty overcast parking lot, angled toward a long row of nested carts as if trying to rejoin them.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/88/e88830a3-d951-4682-b91c-ff9b3de17f28/content/images/2026/05/sun_restless_cart-1.jpg)