2024-08-16 13:45:33
Cosmetic surgery is booming like never before. Talk show hosts Markus Lanz and Richard David Precht are also concerned about the topic. In their current podcast episode, they take a critical look at the trend.
“It’s summer, Richard. I was out and about and I noticed: There are only beautiful people left,” Markus Lanz greets his podcast partner Richard David Precht in the current episode of “Lanz & Precht”. The presenter and the philosopher take a critical look at the value of beauty in society, especially for young people. Their own appearance is also a topic.
As a child, Precht was rather “small and skinny” and had no real chance with girls. On the other hand, he suspects that Lanz was attractive as a child: “I could imagine that you were already doing advertising for Kinder chocolate as a child.” Lanz admits to a certain similarity to the Zwieback Child when he was younger. But as a child he mainly posed in front of the camera for a clothing store. In general, however, their own beauty is not an everyday topic for the two of them, unlike the rest of society.
Both attribute the boom in the beauty industry to “peer pressure”. Markus Lanz believes that many people now look the same because of cosmetic surgery. Lanz stresses that the topic should not be demonized in general. But both view the pressure on young people, which is also encouraged by social media, as particularly critical.
“An entire generation is coming under incredible pressure,” says Lanz. According to Precht, the effects of this digital beauty craze are serious. “It is the total perversion of humanity,” he says. The young generation finds itself in a contradiction, because they consider every person to be beautiful in some way, says Precht.
The discussion ends with a thoughtful conclusion: the pressure that young people are exposed to today is unprecedented and is only exacerbated by the constant availability of digital filters and social media. “Perhaps we should all place more value on the real person and less on the perfect digital image,” concluded Precht.