Adopting a view shared by most of his voters, Donald Trump has made the fight against gender ideology a central tenet of his political project. In fact, this issue was one of the first areas of convergence with Elon Musk before their notable political split. The attack on Iran, in this sense, brings about a perplexing turn of events; this is what we will attempt to explain in this article.

Michel Foucault proposes a very apt dichotomy to define our ambivalent relationship with what we have called "the welfare state." While the pre-modern state "kills and lets live," the contemporary state "makes live and lets die." I also recall another one that always makes me think: "Health has replaced salvation." These are memorable summaries that show us that the Leviathan is no longer an impersonal and distant force that merely punishes those who break the law, but has become a solicitous agent whose main function is to watch over the population, and which incorporates a function that was formerly the monopoly of the Church: caring for souls. All this may seem quite abstract, but it becomes concrete if we think about the conflicting feelings that almost everyone has experienced as a result of the country's lockdown due to the storm and the proliferation of mobile phone alerts. What should we do about the irritation we feel toward the state's excessive care?