Maistre in the 21st Century

If Maistre lived in today's world, he would be very disappointed with modern society. Joseph de Maistre is very supportive of old, traditional practices. For one, he would dislike the way that we elect our president. He would have trouble dealing with a democratic political system. Maistre prefers to be in a hereditary monarchy. If we lived it his way for the last 250 years in the US, we would have something like a "King George Washingon VIII."

Maistre also supported Christianity (particularly Catholicism), so he would be making sure that everyone follows Catholic religion. There would be very little religious diversity, if any, if it were up to Maistre. Also, Maistre would be against the constitution and all other written laws around the world. In his eyes, written laws are not the best way to get people to have good values. He would think that by today, we should have good values just from the skills gradually being instilled in everyone over the last few centuries. Maistre's ideas are much different from those of today's society, as he is quite traditional while today we live in a very progressive world. We are changing exponentially from year to year, which is something Joseph-Marie de Maistre would be against.