It’s a commentary on sinful mankind’s nature and the herd mentality. satan is behind it.
Yes, Satan is currently the god of this world.
2 Corinthians 4:3-4
King James Version
3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Corinthians%204%3A3-4&version=KJV