Mother Jones Illustrations;michel Christopher/abaca/zuma;malcolm Ali/whe image/getty;chip sornodevilla/getty What happens when dystopian visions of futuristic societies stop feeling like fiction and begin to resemble reality? A year ago, a group of us read Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower & Parable of the Talents (read my blog3/1/25). What struck me then and disturbs me even more now was how eerily familiar Butler’s imagined America felt. Her novel depicts a society des