Through dark brotherhoods and secret operations they ignore the will of the people.

通过黑暗兄弟会和秘密操作，他们疏忽人们的需要。

That secret societies or "Brotherhoods" of exceptional, "enlightened" human beings would have preserved these inventions and the knowledge of science, history, etc.

异常的秘密社团或者“兄弟团体”，“受启迪”的人类会保存这些发明和科学、历史知识等等，看起来并不令人惊讶。