You've struck exactly the right balance between Cynefin and Cynicism. AnthroComplexity is what some are seeing as complicating complexity. In early 2022 I published a little eBook that opened the door to parallel themes in sociology, with a way simpler (and old) center-point for characterizing complex problems in and around the discipline of sociology, one that was lost in the mid-20th century. (TheSociologicalProblem.com) It was a cornerstone for a sociosimplexity approach to repositioning The Sociological Problem as a launchpad for broader discussion of an updated sociological approach to organizational work, including work in safety.

About that time, Cynefin also shifted hard into anthrocomplexity, mostly deploying its existing complexity thinking to a new ecosystem metaphor and the re-jiggered framing under anthropology. The historic non-Western cultural context of colonial explorations of indigenous "primitives" and ethnography seemed an oddly unusual route to me, but then, none of the Western pseudo-sciences are immune from the related perspectives of colonialism. Anthropology and the colonial ethnographic motives were just more closely integrated than the others, and the discipline's recent apologies are appropriate, but haven't yet significantly altered the approaches and methodologies.

Perhaps that was at least briefly addressed in the Cynefin retreat(s).

https://www.google.com/search?q=anthropology+%2B+racism

Very nice post, and I'm grateful to have caught it. Much work to do, and many hands can't hurt in sorting it all out before we're all swamped by the MetaCrisis.