@RichardHanania Many Americans would probably concede that the world is collectively improving, but at the expense of their own country and its citizens... i.e. shipping jobs to China in exchange for cheap goods was probably a bad idea in the long run.
@OptimumHelp Temporary Fix -- in Chrome, go to "Settings" (three dots menu in toolbar), then "Privacy and Security", click "Security", scroll down to "Select DNS Provider", and change from "OS Default" to "Google (Public DNS)". This is a DNS server issue rather than a true outage.