Tyranny in PKD

If there was a dominant theme that connected the short stories, it's the idea of systematic tyranny perpetuated by the government. In The Golden Man, a remarkable man gets abducted by an organization in the vein of the CIA. There really is no basis for his abduction (not really an arrest), other than the fact that there may be a miniscule chance he may use his powers to disrupt the order of things in this manufactured society. Obviously, the government is presented in a very negative light, as Dick has so far presented a very bleak future in all of his stories. Even though I did not read Minority Report, I have seen the movie a couple of times. Again, Minority Report goes back to a shadowy government agency practicing tyranny under the guise of good. But it's not just Minority Report that we see this in Dick's works. The Golden Man has been well covered. But we also see a variation of it in If There Were No Benny Cemoli. Here, we see the government in a shadow state inciting fear among the people by spreading propaganda about the big bad invading force. This keeps them in power even though they are a faceless entity. It is hard to deduce why Dick always presents such a bleak world in his writings. I suppose it is a product of the times, where distrust of the government really started to take hold in his era. And also, everyone loves a good conspiracy story.