3rd body paragraph

The idea of changing who we are based on policies and structures put in place by the government stems largely off of The Trial. Kafka uses K. as an example of this deterioration of the human soul built off of societal institutions. Everything we build up as a society for the "greater good" of society itself can sometimes do more damage than good. As humans, we always have the intrinsic need to please ourself and satisfy our own needs over everyone else's. Kafka displays this in the phony bureaucracy placed in The Trial. Whoever created the bureaucracy obviously had bigger plans in mind for himself/herself, but promoted it as a good thing for society. K. is the example of the innocent bystander that is struck by the negative externality of the fake institution, which was operating towards the need or want of another human being in the web that makes up society. Therefore, what we create in society ultimately can (and usually does) hurt that same society. K. is Kafka's main emphasis on this idea, showing that even the most successful people in society can fall down based on the institutions that we perceive to be doing a good job for society. It's odd that Kafka seemed to be able to exaggerate and foresee such an imperceivable type of civilization. In the United States, we live under a government that seems to grow closer and closer into what seems to feel like something along the lines of what Kafka writes about. A governmental institution that could change innocent bystanders, just like K. With portions of the government like the NSA and all that the internet tracks, literally any person in all of the United States is under watch, and is under some suspicion at all times. It doesn't quite fit the extreme population that Kafka promotes in his book, but it definitely raises some eyebrows as to where we are headed as a nation and society. K. suffers to show the potential of a bureaucracy as radical as the one in The Trial. A bureaucracy that could take the most successful of people, turn them into crap, and then take their life. Whoever is under the control of an institution like that portrayed in The Trial has his/her own, personal, wants that will ultimately gained regardless of whose lives are taken in the process. In this case, it was K.'s life for the want of another. In other cases, it could be me or you.