The disappearance of Martin at the time of their expulsion of Bilaria does not overmuch affect the steely optimism of Master Pangloss and of his unfailing disciple Candide.

All the more than Fortunate Bigboss ensured them : " Let us make confidence with the pragmatism of our friend Martin to leave without damage this regrettable situation. I will use anyway of all my influence and my powerful relations to get him out of this wasps' nest ".

Fortunate Bigboss: " Till now, the religions and the cultures of the various nations, were very disparate. To day and especially tomorrow, the universalization of transport and their speed, the quasi-instantaneity of the communications (radio, TV, Internet) transform our globe into what one calls the " world village ".

Pangloss: " And how do these villagers of the world react ? "

Fortunate Bigboss: " Primarily by an exacerbated culture of their individualism ".

Candide : " Individualism for oneself, selfishness for the others, of course ".

Fortunate Bigboss: " Two interpretations of the same attitude ".

Fortunate Bigboss then undertook to describe to his companions the deep motives of the New Society. A New Society of nations with D.C.S. (Developed Critical Spirit) to which aspired the major part of the nations with C.S.W.D.

The founder rule of this New Society, he explained , is the social success. The social success, it is the celebrity and the richness. It does not matter the way in which one acquired them. By heritage, chance, cheating or deserve. In accordance with this highly permissive criterion, all is authorized. Better, all is advised : corruption and influence traffics in policy - that is skilfulness - with possibly a small genocide (a few million deaths confirming a dictatorship does not waste anything); treacheries in businesses - it is, in fact, only innocent financial arrangements -; cheatings in the sport - simple chemical working for high level athletes -; artistic fuss - avant-guard artists have all rights -. The panoply of the means is vast. Each one has his choice.

The celebrity is the supreme reward. Acquired not by the banal discovery of a scientist crowned by an umpteenth Nobel Prize. Or by an innovative work (painting, book, etc...) intended not to find its public, at best, after several decades. But by the gesticulation of obscure intellectuals thus respected, by falsification of sportsmen thus admired and the innumerable ephemeral stars of the froth of actuality. Stars devoted by the Twenty Hours of the TV, the chattering of the radios and the impressive and futile pullin of papers with a wide circulation.

The celebrity, continued Fortunate BigBoss, supreme value of the New Society opens, it is quite natural, all the doors. Richness, at first. All makes money ! Consideration: the most closed circles accomodate you with open arms. Influence: can one refuses you anything ?

Candide intervened: " We seized well that the celebrity represents the supreme value of this New Society. Which ways lead to it ? "

Fortunate Bigboss: " There are two royal ways. One for the men, another firstly utilized by the women ".

Pangloss: " I believe to guess. For the men, understanding, knowledge, creativity ! For the women, beauty, sensitivity, vitality ! Isn't it ? "

Candide : " I am convinced that my good Master perfectly understood, as usual ! "

Fortunate Bigboss: " Not completely. I will first speak to you about men ".

Pangloss: " Which is thus this royal way which leads the men to the top of this New Society ? "

Fortunate Bigboss: " Football ".

Candide: " Football ? "

Fortunate Bigboss: " Football ! For billion peoples on this earth, football is alpha and omega of the life. Football, it is the assurance to leave misery, it is the success so much desired, complete happiness, the highest reward. Only worthy passion of the life. The top of any ambition " .

Pangloss: " The ideal of this New Society, it is to strike in a balloon ? "

Fortunate Bigboss: " To strike in a balloon, that is what attracts immense crowds in the stadiums. It is the origin of fantastic audiences of all the medias, TV, radios, newspapers, Internet. Billion leisures of kids and adults throughout the world. Reason of living and hoping of billion peoples, black, white or yellow. What can there be of more exciting ? "

Candide: " Thus, simply to strike in a balloon brings celebrity and happiness ? "

Fortunate Bigboss: " It is the incomparable culture of the New Society " .

Pangloss: " The Culture of the Round Balloon ! The New Society of the Round Balloon ! The men will always amaze me by the strangeness of their passions ! "

Candide: " Culture of the Round Balloon for the men. Why not ? "

Pangloss: " The women should not be indebted with a new splendid culture. Which is thus this new royal way ? "

Fortunate Bigboss: " The ditty " .

Pangloss: " The ditty ? "

Fortunate Bigboss: " The ditty ! The women, young peoples and less young peoples, do not live any more without the ditty. The ditty spread over all the modes : CD, DVD, video, single, album, musical show, european and worlwide contests. The ditty became with the girls what the Round Balloon is to the boys. Many TV perfectly understood the fascination of the ditty on their public and all the hopes (or illusions), that it causes to it. They devote to it, with abnegation, the essential of their programs and of their audience ".

Candide: " In short, the religion of the New Society, it is the marriage of the balloon and the ditty ".

Fortunate Bigboss: " Absolutely. It should be known that these two activities which focus the aspirations and the hopes of majority of inhabitants through planet have a considerable economic impact. They represent business of hundreds of billion dollars or euros ".

Pangloss, always positive: " All is thus not negative in this culture of the New Society ! "

Fortunate Bigboss: " Admittedly not ! It is clear that the efforts made by these crowds, the considerable sums brought into play could, according to certain faultfinders, being used with other ends, like the elevation of the standard of living of the C.S.W.D. of immense deprived populations of our sphere. The skill to be juggled, with its feet, a round balloon and the syncopated contortions of a girl on a scene monopolizes differently our contemporaries. It is their choice ! "

Candide: " If one wants to summarize the essence of this New Society, one can conclude from it that the new values recognized by the crowds, it is pedestrian virtuosity and musical chortle " .

Fortunate Bigboss: " I have not said it. I have only thought it ".

Pangloss, incorrigible optimistic : " According to you, the New Society would preach a culture of mediocrity ? How it is altruism, adventure or religion, it is essential that the men are moved by an ideal ! "

Fortunate Bigboss: " Thus bravo for the ideal marriage of the Round Balloon and the Ditty ! "