Oh, completely. It never seems evident to these people agreeing with his "wise words" that this is (probably) a person paid or at least seriously encouraged to spread a particular kind of message. That anyone would even think to manipulate them in such a way is foreign to them.
The world be damned, who cares about tomorrow?
Seems to me that's our particular kind of hell. 'Cause we do care, most of us, in some way. Be much easier watching it all burn if we didn't care. And right now, seeing how little of a difference many of us are making, it seems preferable not to care...