School is the church of the modern society. See Ivan Illich and John Taylor Gatto.

The gods are the assigned authorities. In the inverse totalitarian system the power is held mainly by the large corporations, and the Pharma complex is perhaps the most powerful one, and the one that depends the most on faith. After all, as they have grown in power, public health has plummeted, and when their dealers, MDs, are on a strike or away for a training mortality goes down. So they advertise the most, and this gives them power over media.

And after vaccines became a product that is liability free and can be mandated for entire populations, they became the holy grail for big pharma.