you are the Kwisatz Haderach

>fats control a resource called spice in some planet

>they oppress the muslims who live in the desert planet to get it

>king of the universe says fats gotta go, new guy in charge

>mom was grooming new guys kid into being a jesus figure who can see the future when he consumes spice

>muslims worship kid

>new guy has taken over

>fats launch full scale assault to take back the spice, turns out king just wanted to kill new guy and is supporting the fats

>new guys kid must become an hero, taking back the spice, conquering the muslims and waging trans genocide against the king who had daddy killed

>oh and gotta beware the giant sandworms who will eat you if you step on the sand of a desert planet (the whole thing), theyre memes.

Theres the first movie in a nutshell.

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense, But the real universe is always one step beyond logic

First book is fairly straight forward for the overall plot and motivations. Empire bad. Bene Gesserit bad. Harkonnens fat (so in other words bad). Revenge good.

The bigger ideas it presents can kind of be ignored and you'd still get through it fine. Those pay off in the later books. The big one from the first novel being, maybe embracing a messiah persona to get what you want can really backfire on you, what with the galactic Jihad you later spawn that ends up killing hundreds of billions that you have no control over.

It gets even better as the main character spends the first book trying to straddle that divinity line and the next two books trying to undo it but then his son says frick that and instead goes all in and becomes a living God as a human/worm hybrid which sets the stage for the 4th book which is amazing.