‘Perhaps the composition and layout of surfaces constitute what they afford. If so, to perceive them is to perceive what they afford. This is a radical hypothesis, for it implies that the “values” and “meanings” of things in the environment can be directly perceived.  Moreover, it would explain the sense in which values and meanings are external  to the perceiver’, argues James Gibson in his text ‘The Theory of Affordances’ emphasizing how spaces are read as habitable or lack

Sometimes, I think that the pride and the belief of an educated person who is aware of social discrimination thinking that they treat people better than others do, when it comes to questions of caste, class and gender is somehow worse than people who are completely uneducated or uninformed about the topic. There are several reasons for this: People convince themselves that a certain amount of education and awareness automatically makes them better at confronting sensitive iss