His gender realignment upsets the apple cart, leading his eldest daughter Sarah Amy Landeckerr) to dump her husband and get back together with her college girlfriend; son Josh Jay Duplasss) to quit his lucrative job in the music biz after getting one of his singers pregnant; and youngest sibling Ali Hoffmannn) to experiment with drugs and her own gender identity.
The problem that Moby must keep solving is how to move beyond the initial surprise that his stylistic realignments cause.
He compares his periodic realignments to the Beatles' decision to break up, "leaving all those fabulous albums and saving us from 35 years of shit where they aren't as good as they used to be".
And he chose a policy that his wonks call "realignment".
"It's a problem people have had to come to terms with at different times in history: what do you do in a period of defeat?" In his case, the realignment took an unexpected form: he turned to writing fiction.
Partly a cause, partly a consequence, of political realignment, his 1980 victory over the incumbent president, Democrat Jimmy Carter, was a seismic event, which touched off an earthquake similar to those that followed the victories of Andrew Jackson in 1828 and Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1932.
"We just had this normal midwestern upbringing," says David, who, since the Naked Gun movies, has also directed BASEketball, about some goofballs who invent a new sport, and (after his post-9/11 realignment from Democrat to Republican) An American Carol, about an anti-American film-maker who is visited by three ghosts.
One was prison realignment, his effort to comply with a court decree to reduce inmate crowding.
And their zealousness shows they'll do what they can to make sure Trump includes that in his radical, frightening realignment of the nation.
The 71-year-old president, famous for blunt, often profane rhetoric, announced his country's realignment in a state visit to Beijing, where he was hailed as China's new "brother.''.
