A Radical Cult

I was reading a review of a book about a radical sex cult of the 1970s when something began to sound strangely familiar:

And as the 1980s wore on, the group caused its own downfall, becoming more authoritarian. Its guidelines became more rigid and insulating, focused on the “narcissism of small differences” between correct and incorrect behavior. In response to the AIDS epidemic, members were forbidden to even eat in restaurants. As the institute’s financial straits mounted, head therapists badgered patients into becoming computer programmers, a highly lucrative emerging field. They forced members to devote time and money they couldn’t afford to the Fourth Wall, the Sullivanian radical-lefty theater company. Members, plagued by their own inner doubts but too terrified to leave the cult, became intolerant of each other. They reported on one another’s transgressions — Stasi-style — conducting physical intimidation and becoming complicit in countless forms of harm.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/09/the-triumph-of-the-nuclear-family/

The reviewer goes on to say that the cult dissolved in 1991 but I’m having serious doubts about that.