wild X internals selection question

Just a hypothetical question for a reactionary stick-in-the-mud
X11 user who wishes no one had ever thought of inventing
CLIPBOARD in addition to PRIMARY:

Would it be possible to invent a mechanism (possibly an X server
extension?) to effectively alias the two selections? Any app
that set PRIMARY would simultaneously set CLIPBOARD and vice-versa.

Maybe assign the interned CLIPBOARD and PRIMARY names the
same atom value? :-).

Is there already a way and I just don't know about it?

Just curious... (not interested in a debate or flame war about
the value of two selections - just assume my brain is broken,
and pity me, OK? :-).
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