If something doesn't feel right, you're not feeling the right thing. A person who smiles in the face of adversity probably has a scapegoat. If you can stay calm, while all around you is chaos, then you probably haven't completely understood the situation. We are Microsoft. Resistance is futile.
Plagiarism saves time.
If at first you don't succeed, try management. At least you're not being rectally probed by aliens. This can't go on forever. Even the Third Reich only lasted 12 years.