Poor Time Traveler

I felt so bad for him. Working so hard to develop a time machine, feeling like a genius when it finally works, only to find out that the first people he meets in the year 800,000 is are stupid. The whole society has degraded in intelligence and he cannot communicate with them. They think he's weird and that he came from the sun in a lightning storm. Poor Time traveler. I just want to give him a hug, and tell him that not all people are stupid. On top of going insane from the lack of intelligent people to talk to, he also loses his time machine. With the possibility that he could be stuck in a society where everyone is stupid and only eat fruit...that's a nightmare. I was happy knowing that because he was telling the story to his friends, i knew he had returned, but the things that he went through weren't fair. And they were eye opening. Seeing that we only improve through struggle is a very valid point, one that i wasn't aware of before reading the Time Machine. Now that i see the point, however, i see it everywhere. From studying to playing videogames, people improve through struggle and failure. You maximize efficiency and develop new ways of solving problems. I really liked reading the novel/short story, or whatever it's classified as, and i think i might check out more of Well's literature in the future.