 Still others viewed the disaster as the result of the arrogance and hubris of the ship's owners and the Anglo-American elite, or as a demonstration of the folly of putting one's trust in technology and progress.Such a wide range of interpretations has ensured that the disaster has been the subject of popular debate and fascination for decades.The "Titanic" disaster led to a flood of verse elegies in such quantities that the American magazine "Current Literature" commented that its editors "do not remember any other event in our history that has called forth such a rush of song in the columns of the daily press."