Why "Reactionary"?

Progress means getting nearer to the place you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning, then to go forward does not get you any nearer. If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man.

     - C.S. Lewis


In the last couple of centuries, the West has:

    - overthrown every earthly authority previously respected, from kings to priests to parents.
    - discarded the morality and way of life that humans have guided humans since they became humans as "outmoded" and "out of touch".
    - worked to dissolve every societal institution that tied people together: marriage, parent-child bonds, church, community, and nation.
    - made Man (sorry, Human) their God.
    - decided that, unlike every other group of people, they have no reason to protect their culture, their homelands, or their children's future. They go beyond transcending these, as the "noble savages" do; people is simply irrelevant to the enlightened Westerner.

We do not need to make more of such "progress"; nor do we need to "conserve" the mess we've made so far. Progressivism and Conservatism are destructive. Reaction is a maligned, and not wholly adequate term (perhaps "traditionalism" is better), but it gets the point across quite nicely.