Should people be morally autonomous, or strive for being integrated into the the morality of their society? The answer depends on whether you are identified as an instance of a group mind or as an autonomous individual.
The question is not whether you deduce the Categorical Imperative from the constraints set by your desired aesthetics or not. What's relevant is that your ethics are contingent on your own integrity and rationality, not on the approval of the highest ranks of the ingroup.