Affordances recflection

Affordances make up the grounds for everything we interact with, from chairs to people to people systems.
The environment offers many affordances and a way of life is a utilized set of affordances.

I found it interesting when Gibson was talking about barriers and imprisonment as locomotion impeded on all sides and that the story of the saint on the high pillar was imprisoned by precipices. Similarly, one may be imprisoned in a building not because you are locked in, but because there are zombies outside. But maybe your unwillingness to become a zombie is just your high pillar.

Depending on what the object is, it may be interepreted as affording different things to the animal that is interacting with it. This tells us something about our way of life or way of thinking.
       A hand held tool may afford writing, but what is it affording if one chews on it in creative anxiety?