You're right, I've always known about man

You're right, I've always known about man. Judging by the evidence, his wisdom goes hand in hand with his madness

The Forbidden Zone was once a paradise. Your kind turned it into a desert, many centuries ago

You smiled, of course: an orangutan as chief scientist and keeper of the faith, forbidding science and burning manuscripts. A barbarian, a reactionary, an ignoramus, a hypocrite! But put yourself in his place. Three thousand years ago man blew everything up, burned it down, wrecked it and vanished. He left behind a desert and the charred skeletons of skyscrapers, and suddenly there is Dr Zaius, with the task of making sure it never happens again.

He tries in good faith. In places he goes too far. In places he wheedles and dissembles. But the essence of it is noble! That nobody should reinvent nuclear power, the internet and tank biathlon.

He is not against progress in general, he is against human progress. For he knows that where there is man, there are explosions, revolutions and rubbish on the wild strawberry glade.

What if Zaius is not a villain but an orderly of history? Do not tell me there are no such people. He looks at us across many thousands of years and thinks: are you not afraid of turning into sand?

And we call him an obscurantist. But personally I always liked him, and certainly more than Cornelius. It is simply that everyone misunderstood him