I agree with everything you said, but I would not use the word microcosm. A simpler more accurate word would have been "example".

Microcosm means something in miniature encapsulating the features of something much larger.

You are implying that this is an EXAMPLE of IDS, not that this is a smaller version of IDS.




[QUOTE=MDtR-Chicago;16607133]This thread is an excellent microcosm of what might be called Irresistible Deal Syndrome - which occasionally turns into a brief epidemic on FT...