Anna Karenina is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. Its gossip, rubbish - on the other hand, its the deepest story there could be about social transgression, about love, betrayal, duty, children.
Institutions which have too much security. . . tend to become bureaucratic. They add layers of people and layers of rules in order to assure the security of not making mistakes.