> will always have an alignment, it's trivial to ground them in a different alignment though provided what you want to do isn't so egregious
The problem is that "egregious" is defined with respect to
> the Upper Middle Class U.S. West Coast Tech Scene political zeitgeist of the day […] even if it is completely inappropriate in your own cultural environment
It's easier to see where this goes wrong from the outside, as we all like to think of our social and political zeitgeist as the highest peak of refinement, far better than everyone else including our own past.
So, sexuality.
I live in Berlin; the KitKatClub isn't far from my current workplace, and I pass several billboards (some spinning cubes, some stationary) for Dildo King on the way to work, and what looked like an ad for a brothel on the way to a previous workplace, topless calendars are sold in full public display in normal shopping malls, and there is a neon statue of Leda and the Swan.
The cultural zeitgeist of Silicon Valley is an Overton Window (all zeitgeists are, it's not just voting), and that window includes Apple preventing me from connecting to adult content groups on Telegram and Discord even if I expressly say that is what I want to do.
(In a different direction, when I first visited the USA, a few years before the pandemic, I was shocked to find for sale in the supermarket an entire section of father-daughter valentines' cards, as I'm used to that day being just for couples).
Or consider alcohol. The US doesn't have a single attitude to alcohol (see map on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_county), but I can say my workplace kitchen has beer, rum, vodka, and sake, while some places in the world consider all alcohol to be illegal.
Or beef: steaks are part of my stereotype of American culture, eating it will get you lynched in parts of India.
This kind of thing happens often, with a great many taboos in one place being common in another.
And, barring an AI taking over and crystallising culture into only one form, it will happen again — many things currently forbidden will be allowed, and many things currently allowed will be forbidden, when Gen Z become the most common grandparents.
