K the paranoid, the vicitm: How can you not identify with him? (The Castle)

Another "read" on Franz Kafka's "The Castle," and perhaps overlooked only because it's so obvious, is the political interpretation, the approach to the castle an analogue to working with and through any government bureaucracy, but particularly a totalitarian regime - the insignificance of the individual confronted with the mechanisms of the state, K. a pin caught in the cogwheel - he's apparently hired to do a job (land surveying) but on arrival is unable to approach those who've hired him or to get any clarity on the work he's supposed to do or whether that work was ever necessary or intended, then oddly gets "assigned" to a job as a school janitor - all of this echoes the mechanics of The Trial, in which someone is charged with a crime but cannot ever learn what or why or how to proceed - the government operating as some force completely controlling of our lives but as completely outside of our control as well, like the climate. The unknown and incomprehensible government all that much more terrifying that the brutal regime of say Darkness at Noon or the totalitarian 1984, because government in The Castle is or feels like a psychological force as well, something set up in opposition to each individual, the state v the individual, all the seeds of paranoia but presented in a way that is coldly rational, as seen from the paranoid (or is it the oppressed? the victim?) point of view. How can you not identify with K.? Haven't we all had these nightmares?