BNW4 - A Flowing Simile

"Some sort of extra power that you aren't using-you know, like all the water that goes down the falls instead of through the turbines?" (Brave New World, pg. 69) This simile is gushing with significance. Helmholtz Watson represents the man with a rational mind. He has the intelligence of many of our great minds of today. He represents the old word - along with Bernard Marx. When he says this quote he is in a way referring to the beliefs of the world before Ford. He is saying that all of this pleasure is short of true pleasure - life with Christ. While he may not be saying this exactly, I'm extracting a feeling of emptiness from his life of immoral pleasure. He knows he has the potential to be someone better, but he doesn't know what it is since he has been brainwashed by the neopavlovian society. I feel that he is going to rebel against the society he is currently living in - through the newspaper and propaganda. This simile revealed a lot about Watson.